eap Mailing List: RE: Resolution of 802.1X/EAP-SM issue

[Bernard Aboba (aboba]

As I recall, the resolution of the comment in IEEE 802.1X-D7.1 was that an
interface variable was needed so that EAP could indicate down to the lower
layers whether a protected result indication was received.

Nick -- if you're out there listening.... can you help us clear this up?

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, CONGDON,PAUL (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:

>
> It was both as I recall.  The AAA attribute was clearly not necessary
> because of the requirements for key derivation and mutual auth.  Since this
> wasn't required, the presence of the key could also be used by the pass-thru
> authenticator and thus the new interface variable also wasn't needed.
> Someone correct me if I'm out in the weeds.